 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 sayfa
...chapter of General Remarks, he proposes (Chapter II.) to enquire, What Utilitarianism is? This creed holds that actions are right in proportion as they...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1870 - 566 sayfa
...— their pains do not equal our enjoyments. There is a balance of good.' — Bentham's Deotttalogy, vol. ip 14. Mr. Mill accordingly defines the principle...the reverse of happiness.' — Utilitarianism, pp. 9-10. * The exception of course being domestic animals, which may be injured by ill-treatment, but... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 sayfa
...reader has not forgotten the utilitarian formula which I quoted some time since from Mr Mill', viz. ' that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, and wrong as they do the reverse.' This to me immediately suggests the question, What sort of happiness... | |
 | 1871 - 528 sayfa
...utilitarian school, on the contrary, have maintained that we have no proof of such an intuitional sense ; that actions are right in proportion as they tend...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. But since they have never assigned any other reason for the desire to produce general happiness than... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1871 - 136 sayfa
...can hope to contribute anything towards rescuing it from this utter degradation.* a/wftpfa a a. foe foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportionas they tend to promote happinesSjjaiang 3s they iend to produce the * The author of this.... | |
 | 1872 - 832 sayfa
...knowledge and culture so far above the narrowness of a philosophical sect. " The creed," says Mr Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by uuhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1872 - 356 sayfa
...and painful experience characteristic of our Feelings. The Ethical Theory may be summarized thus : ' Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.' — Mill's Utilitarianism, p. 9. In view of this, the theory is named ' The Happiness Theory,' —... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 sayfa
...pleasure and also the abatements of pain, is the end of action/' a " The creed," says Mr. JS Mill, " which accepts as the foundation of Morals, Utility,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 772 sayfa
...of pain, is the end of action."2 " The creed," says Mr. JS MUI, "which accepts as the .foundation bf Morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness principle,...as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiness, pain and the privation... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 sayfa
...foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-happiness Principle, holds that actions are rightiu proportion as they tend to. promote happiness, wrong...as they tend to produce the reverse "of happiness. By happiness is intended plea-sure and the absence of pain; bv unhappincss, pain and the privation... | |
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. 
